Celebrating Worker Freedom Week

A recent poll showed 71 percent of public employees were aware of the recent Supreme Court ruling, Janus v. AFSCME. This landmark case allows public employees to opt out of financial responsibilities to a union.

It’s terrific that so many people are joining us this week to draw attention to the rights workers have to opt out of funding private third parties (unions) as a condition of employment. Hopefully, by the end of the year, every public employee will know their rights.

Out of those surveyed, over 50 percent supported the court’s ruling giving workers a choice to end union-created financial responsibilities as a condition of employment, while one-third said they planned to exercise their rights to opt out.

This is excellent news, even workers who plan to stay in their union support their colleagues in having a choice.

The Freedom Foundation is sending emails, mailings, targeted social media and canvassing public office buildings all over the west coast, we have also canvassed thousands of public employee’s homes in the last 55 days to answer questions and get information about Janus to workers.

Join us this week and every week by helping to inform public employees about their rights to opt out of union dues by directing them to optouttoday.com.

If you would like literature to hand out or put on a bulletin board at your office, please let us know.

“I am a junior high teacher in California. I want to thank you for your website and the information I gleaned from it. I have decided to leave the teacher’s union due to ideological differences, and have discovered The Association of American Educators. I am very grateful. Keep up the good work!

— Jamie

“Keep up the great work. I received both the email and mailer to opt-out of the union; however had already done so. Your work is the first I had seen noting the option to opt-out. Of course the unions nor the State made any effort to notify employees of the option.”